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Report: Microsoft remains clear leader in Software as a Service market
The enterprise Software-as-a-Service market grew by 32 percent year-over-year to almost $13 billion in quarterly revenues, according to a new report from Synergy Research Group. Microsoft Corp. remains the clear leader in overall SaaS revenues, having overtaken Salesforce.com Inc. last year. Much of Microsoft’s growth in the sector is attributed to increased adoption of its ...
Analysis: Google undercuts Amazon’s cloud pricing
Amid a flurry of enterprise cloud-related announcements at its annual Cloud Next conference in San Francisco, Google Inc. fired the latest salvo in the ongoing cloud price wars. The tech giant launched “Committed Use Discounts” for customers who commit to its Compute Engine service in the long-term. The company also said it’s cutting prices for the same ...
Alibaba Cloud revs up cloud workloads with Intel’s FPGA chips
Alibaba Cloud, the cloud computing arm of Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group Holding Ltd., is teaming up with Intel Corp. in a pilot program that will see the chip maker’s new line of Field Programmable Gate Array chips made available to its customers as a service. Accelerators such as Intel’s FPGAs are able to help ...
Open Compute Project opens marketplace for data center gear
The Open Compute Project this week launched an online marketplace for smaller data center operators aimed at letting them build their facilities according to the specifications of builders of massively scalable data centers such as Facebook Inc. and Microsoft Corp. The new marketplace allows companies to shop for official OCP hardware, as well as other ...
Microsoft paves the way for ARM-based server chips in the data center
Microsoft Corp. on Wednesday opened up new avenues for ARM-based chip makers to provide processing power to the data center. First, the company said it’s collaborating with Cavium Inc. to run Microsoft Azure cloud workloads on Cavium’s ARM-based server processors. Second, Microsoft is teaming up with Qualcomm Inc. to develop an ARM-based version of its ...
Rackspace brings its ‘Fanatical Support’ managed services to Google’s cloud
Rackspace Inc. is hoping to take cash in on the rising popularity of Google Inc.’s cloud by offering managed services for its enterprise customers. The San Antonio-based firm will introduce its Fanatical Support offering for Google Cloud Platform later in the year, complementing its similar offerings for Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure users. The ...
Facebook revamps its data centers with new servers, donates designs
Facebook Inc. is revamping its data centers with new server hardware in order to cope with the masses of new data its users generate every day. As one of the largest web companies in the world, Facebook has for years been forced to innovate by designing and building its own data center servers and equipment ...
Microsoft releases Visual Studio 2017 for building cloud and mobile apps
Microsoft Corp. Tuesday announced the general availability of Visual Studio 2017, the latest version of its flagship integrated development environment platform with new capabilities for building mobile- and cloud-first applications. The new version of the software enables streamlined cloud development with built-in tools that integrate with .NET Core and Azure applications, microservices, Docker containers and ...
ZTE fined $892m for shipping prohibited technology to Iran
Chinese telecommunications firm ZTE Corp. has been slapped with an $892 million fine after it admitted violating U.S. laws that restrict the sale of American-made technology to Iran. The U.S. Justice Department said ZTE illegally shipped more than $32 million worth of hardware that incorporated prohibited components to Iran between 2010 and 2016, and lied ...
Researchers hit new milestone with DNA storage
Researchers have demonstrated how an algorithm used to stream video on a smartphone can unlock the full potential of DNA storage by squeezing more data into its four base nucleotides. DNA storage has been the subject of research for several years, with scientists successfully storing hundreds of movies and books on strands of DNA. The ...